Ch'ang-chou

The President of the Imperial Academy recommended him for the title of Censor (諫官), but Wang An-shih refused to receive it, giving as a reason that his grandmother was sick and old, and he wanted to serve her. But at once he was made Department Magistrate (知州) of Chʻang-chou.

1894 May, Rev. Isaac T. Headland, “The Edward Bellamy of China: or The Political Condition of the Middle Sungs.”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume 25, number 5, page 207

Wu Kʻuan, for example, who won the highest honors in the metropolitan and palace examination of 1472 and became president of the Board of Rites, was from an artisan family of Ch’ang-chou County, part of Su-chou in southern Kiangsu.

1962, Ping-ti Ho, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, published 1964, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58

The Chung Wang claimed that the imperialists lost 10,000 men at Tan-yang, and, while such numbers were invariably exaggerated by both sides during the rebellion, the victory did open the way to the town of Ch'ang-chou, the first vital position on the line to Soochow.

1981, Caleb Carr, The Devil Soldier, Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17

Further, he suggested strategies and gave counsel to his superiors at Soochow and Ch'ang-chou. (The Governor-General resided temporarily in Ch'ang-chou after the Taiping capture of Nanking in 1853.)

1990, Leung Yuen-sang, The Shanghai Taotai: Linkage Man in a Changing Society, 1843-90, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58